Church Missionary Society

Cory Library, Rhodes University, South Africa

This institution collects material relating to Southern Africa including manuscripts and archives, maps, books, newspapers and audio and visual resources. Its holdings are particularly strong with regard to church and mission history, including copies of the records of UK missionary organisations working in Southern Africa.

Council for World Mission

The successor to the London Missionary Society and the Commonwealth Missionary Society. Includes a brief description of the printed, picture and film archives and details about contacting CWM for permission to consult the material.

Yale Image and Text Database: Mission Periodicals and Reports

As part of the Yale Divinity School's initiative to make more of their resources available on-line they have begun the process of digitising their holdings of printed mission periodicals and annual reports. Currently most of these are for American missionary organisations but there are some for British missionary organisations as well (notably the Religious Tract Society). Phase 2 of the project has just got underway (Summer 2012) with the intention of adding a further 300,000 pages of printed material.

Missions in Australasia

The State Library of New South Wales contains a large amount of original and copy material on missionary work in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands – particularly for sources on Methodist missionaries. To find further missionary records held in Australia consult the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts.

Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections

Mundus provides electronic access to collection-level descriptions of holdings of missionary archives, manuscripts, photographs, artefacts and printed materials held in over 50 libraries, repositories and other institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The Mundus gateway makes it easier for researchers to locate these collections and obtain sufficient information about their contents to enable effective planning of research visits.

British and Foreign Bible Society

IDC

A Dutch company which sell microfiche copies of archive collections from various institutions, including the following SOAS missionary collections: Council for World Mission (London Missionary Society), Conference of British Missionary Societies, Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions, United Society for Christian Literature and the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society.

Internet Mission Photography Archive

A digital archive of images from Catholic and Protestant missionary collections held in the UK, Norway, Germany, and the USA. Images date from the mid C19th to mid C20th and record missionary work in Africa, the Caribbean, China, India and the Pacific. The digital archive includes images from the following SOAS collections: China Inland Mission, Council for World Mission (London Missionary Society), Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions and the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society.

Catholic Heritage

Union catalogue containing entries for the archives of a number of Roman Catholic institutions including the Westminster Diocesan Archives, Scottish Catholic Archives, and the Royal English College in Valladolid, Spain.

My Methodist History

A project which aims to allow sharing of stories, memories, photos, research and comments about people, places and topics related to Methodist history: its early development, nineteenth-century splits and sub-denominations, overseas mission and life post re-union in 1932.

Livingstone Online

The Livingstone Online project website, which provides access to a catalogue and digital images for those letters written by David Livingstone to the London Missionary Society and also to his father-in-law, Robert Moffat, held at SOAS Library.